Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Submerge yourself in the fascinating history of submarines! Your little inventor will get a taste of the early stages of this important technology.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool starfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Continue your journey with Kolobok, the crafty little ball of dough. In part three, he encounters a wolf! Can he escape?

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Children will enjoy looking at a familiar nursery rhyme with fresh eyes in this fun letter-recognition worksheet.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Find out how the story ends in this final chapter of the Teremok folk tale! Have fun coloring together, and building your child's enthusiasm for reading.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare & Contrast Pictures.

Writing to a penpal is a great way for your child to connect with kids in other parts of the world. Help him write back to Rahul about his own life in the U.S.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.